"You've got a friend" Re: Gravure Pigment Tissue
Hello list,
I have just got to say I love this list. Thanks for the ideas and hope
that all will remedy itself at some point. Its nice to know that you can
put something out on this list and gain ideas, support, inspiration and
yes even hope. As the James Taylor song goes "You've got a
friend".
Dick, no problem with the Eddie Saloway connection, I have had a few ask
if we were related. Who knows somewhere back in Poland or the Ukraine we
may have some connection but we stand proud as the small
S al ow ey clan., LOL its all in the spelling. Thanks
also for all of your efforts and contributions to the Alt community. You
may like to know I am among your first customers and am the proud owner
of original Lumens and those wonderful xerox copies of labnotes, etc.!!!
I loved all the experiences in my youth playing around with
Platinum/Palladium.
I have a few additional questions for all.
1. What is the shelf life of Ferric Chloride? I have a stash of this
stuff now and hope it will be viable when pigment tissue becomes
available.
2. Mark, I have considered starting out with Polymer Plate Photogravure
but thought it might be a distraction from the ultimate goal of
copperplate. Upon reconsidering would the skills required in positive
making and inking offer beneficial experiences to working with
copperplate at some point? I would imagine so but some input would be
valuable for me.
Thanks again to this community of "friends"
Marty
At 11:14 PM 8/17/2009, you wrote:
Marty,
If all else fails, you might try Polymer Plate Photogravure.
--
Best Wishes,
Mark Nelson
Precision Digital
Negatives
PDNPrint Forum @
Yahoo Groups
Mark Nelson
Photography
On Aug 17, 2009, at 8:17:40 PM, "Martin Salowey"
<martworld.is@verizon.net> wrote:
- From:"Martin Salowey" <martworld.is@verizon.net>
- Subject:Gravure Pigment Tissue was Fwd: RE: Klaus Pollmeier
- Date:August 17, 2009 8:17:40 PM CDT
- To:alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
- Hello list,
- While the community that makes gravure prints may be small, the loss
of a supplier for gravure pigment tissue is horrific, and in my case,
financially catastrophic. Over the years I have wanted to explore
photogravure but was never able to attend a workshop.
- So, I decided to teach myself the process. Heck, I did it
successfully with many of the other alt processes, so I figured I could
do it with photogravure. Over the last year, at great expense, I
purchased a etching press, etching hot plate, the needed supplies, sans
ferric chloride and gravure tissue. My inquiry of about 2 months ago to
Autotype indicated they had no intention of discontinuing the product,
both on their website and ov er a phone call to confirm the availability
and pricing. Last night, Mr. Sullivan's post sent me into a tailspin and
I called Autotype this morning to find out the last incoming shipment is
sold out! All other sources for the tissue indicated a big run on the
material and could not supply any. Yikes, this in no uncertain terms
sucks, not only for me, but for the entire photogravure
community. I have personally made a huge financial commitment to learning
the process and fulfilling a long desire to make gravure prints now to
find out the key material is no longer available!!!!
- Now that I am done crying out loud is there anyone out there that
might be willing to sell me 6-12 feet of tissue? I would be be most
grateful. Does anyone think there will ever be a commercial source for
the material again? Is it at all a possibility to make the tissue from
scratch in an average darkroom, or is a major production facility
needed?
- Sorry if this post sounds a bit unorganized and frenzied, but it
certainly reflects my frame of mind and disappointment.
- Thanks for reading,
- Marty
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:22:39 -0600
- From: Richsul Sullivan <richsul@earthlink.net>
- Subject: RE: Klaus Pollmeier
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- Thanks Judy. I've gotten his address, or at least what some think it
is,
- it's a university email so likely correct. I have an inquiry in to
him now.
- I don't know why my Google didn't pop him up.
- I anyone here has any information on the making of gravure tissue, I
and a
- lot of other folks would appreciate having it forwarded.
- Thanks again Judy,
- --Dick
- -----Original Message-----
- From: Judy Seigel [
mailto:jseigel@panix.com]
- Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 8:01 PM
- To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
- Subject: Klaus Pollmeier
- My system seems to have eaten Sullivan's recent query, tho for what
it's
- worth I note the following 11-year ol d info (from Post-Factory
#2):
- There's an article by Pollmeie r about reprinting Drtikol.... He
- (Pollmeier) thus sort of re-invented carbon after it had sunk into
total
- desuetude...
- Klaus Pollmeier's data as of October 1998:
- address:
- Muehlenfeld 43 S-45470, Muelheim-Ruhr, Germany
- [Is that the Muelheim that's just across the field from Basel
Switzerland?
- I seem to recall something like that... they called it "drei
lande ecke."]
- Telephone +49-208-431051, Fax: +49-208-433937
- e-mail kpollmeier@compuserve.com
- (I think, however, compuserve is no more ?)
- He worked with Czech artists Jan Splichal and Vaclave Kirasek, who
might
- still be around & have some suggestions. Also at the time
he was teaching
- photograpy at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in the Dessau
School
- of Design. And owned Fine Print Studios, mail order source of
alternative
- photog. materials.
- One of the above might provide a clue, if not the ding an
sich.
- J.
- J.
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